Found in a record store: Kurt Cobain’s uncashed royalty check

Ghost ponds, gorgeous light fixtures, and a DeLorean museum. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. September 06, 2019 Found: Kurt Cobain’s Royalty Check Last week at Seattle's Easy Street Records, a flimsy, folded-up piece of paper wedged in a used record collection revealed itself as an uncashed royalty check issued to Kurt Cobain. Read More → Ghost Ponds There were nearly one million ponds around England and Wales at the beginning of the 20th century, but today hundreds of thousands of these habitats are gone. They’ve become ghost ponds—and resurrecting these former water sources is much easier than you think. Read more → Atlas Obscura Trips Mexico City Culinary Adventure From street food to contemporary Mexican dining trends, this six-day adventure, developed in partnership with Culinary Backstreets, in and around Mexico City next May will focus on food and the people who make it. Learn more → Community Gorgeous Light Fixtures In Oman’s Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, you can find a chandelier so large, there’s a staircase inside to help workers clean the cavalcade of lamps. There are many unforgettable light fixtures like this one lighting up spaces across the globe, tell us about the most illuminating sites you’ve seen. Share now → FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA TWA-United Collision A mass grave for victims of a 1956 airline disaster is in Citizens Cemetery in Flagstaff. Read more → HUMBLE, TEXAS DeLorean Museum In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead. Read more → Zoology’s Favorite Hoax In the 1950s, nuclear testing wiped out the Pacific archipelago of Hy-yi-yi, and along with it, a rare species of snouty shrews. Or at least, that's according to one fantastically elaborate study that became one of biology's most beloved hoaxes. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222